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December 5, 2025

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UPDATED: Oregon Lawmakers Pass Bill to Limit Utility Rate Increases

The Oregon Senate is set to vote on a bill that aims to mitigate the impact of rising energy costs on consumers by prohibiting residential rate increases during the winter and requiring utilities and regulators to analyze consumer affordability when setting rates.

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Oregon Governor Signs Bill to Create Data Center Rate Class
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek signed a bill designed to ensure that operators of large data centers pay for grid upgrades needed to supply them with electricity while avoiding shifting those costs to residential ratepayers.
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Oregon House Passes Bill to Shift Energy Costs onto Data Centers
The Oregon House of Representatives voted in favor of a bill that would require data center developers to shoulder a larger share of their own energy costs in an effort to mitigate risk to smaller consumers.
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Oregon Looks to Accelerate GHG Reduction Goals
Oregon found it is on track to meet its greenhouse gas reduction goal for 2035 earlier than that date, so it moved the target to 2030.
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Clean Energy, Equity Goals to Reshape Oregon IRP Process
Oregon regulators began a proceeding to determine how to incorporate ambitious clean energy and social equity goals into utility resource planning.
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Oregon Study to Examine Prospects for Floating Offshore Wind
An upcoming study on the benefits and challenges of developing floating OSW will explore a range of topics to help inform Oregon state lawmakers.
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Oregon Program to Provide $50M for Community Renewables, Resilience
Oregon’s Department of Energy is seeking ways to dispense $50 million in public funding to support community-based renewable energy efforts.
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West Coast Could Be Net Zero by Midcentury
Oregon lawmakers approved a bill requiring major utilities to rely solely on clean energy in 2040, making the West Coast carbon-free by midcentury.

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